Problem installing MingW on Vista64

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SLotman

(Posted 2009) [#1]

Can anyone please help me? I just bought Blitzmax, but when installing MingW, it stops the installation half the way, and give me this error:

(...long log file...)
Extracting gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
untgz::extract -d 'C:\MinGW' -z 'C:\Users\SLotman\Downloads\Linguagens\Blitzmax\gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz' 
tgz_extract: bad header checksum
Error: Failure reading from tarball.

does anyone knows how to fix this? I've already tried deleting all .gz files and downloading them again, but the installer allways gives this error, no matter what :(

GfK	(Posted 2009) [#2]

Not sure, but I don't think I've ever got MinGW to install in fewer than half a dozen attempts. It really is an atrocity.

Can't suggest anything other than keep trying. :/

SLotman

(Posted 2009) [#3]

nevermind, I just downloaded that .tar.gz from another source (here) and it worked... now to do the extra steps needed to get it working on Vista...

Thanks anyway :)